i'm. was. was. the second deliver of egypt's revolution is a month of my struggle not celebration with my last project planned by those on three would be crumbling economy and a lack of trying. the cia veteran who faces jail for blowing the whistle on the agency's interrogation tactics and exposing torture as a policy it says he's being prosecuted for doing right. also this hour at the u.n. launchers and rights to gauge and to the use of drone strikes mainly by the united states that's resulted spores of civilian deaths and what could be deemed a client. catalonia unger's madrid by claiming it harmed the right to split from spain with austerity stagnation and

a record unemployment driving the to a strange size apart. international news live this is all she was me. and welcome to the program. on the second anniversary of the egyptian revolution people are back on the iconic square but not to celebrate various groups are calling for fresh anti-government rallies with demands very similar to those that lead to regime change the gears ago the evil their anniversary was marked with the s. clashes between u.s. activists and police which left dozens injured tear gas and rubber bullets were used to despise the protesters who try to tear down a wall preventing them from reaching parliament cairo based reporter belcher explains now what's driving those who fought for change to years ago back onto the

streets. just off egypt's tahrir square surrounded by murals of slain protesters law graduates tarik talks about his brother who was killed during the two thousand and eleven revolution two years on tarek says the country has yet to see the changes that his brother died fighting for instead in a deepening economic crisis many ordinary egyptians are barely able to get by hold off for him that. they're close to the cost for all i knew street in parliament he was shot down on the twenty eighth of january so far there has been no justice i'm twenty seven years old and i don't have any work now there are a lot of people like me who are unemployed there are some people reach the point where they don't have to. right now youth unemployment levels in egypt have reached a staggering seventy seven percent which means that young people like tarek will be

unable to pay for even their most basic needs even though they fought in a january twenty five revolution which demanded bread freedom and social justice two thousand and thirteen is expected to be an even harder year for egypt the people who live in these impoverished areas in cairo will be the hardest hit. while a senior economics commentator at the egyptian shrewd newspaper says the economy has significantly suffered after two years of political turmoil the problem is that the government is you. as in the same policies to deal with this situation now especially after the i.m.f. loan with deep austerity measures taxes mainly on the poor not dealing with the corruption real corruption and deep corruption. that was something chronic with the mubarak regime till now with the economy at a standstill and vital subsidies being cut in twenty thirteen families living on a few dollars a day will be on able to put food on the table or a roof over their heads this is despite president mohamed morsi promising to tackle

key issues like bread and fuel shortages but it is not just daily economic hardship weighing on people's minds many say important goals of the twenty eleven eighteen they are praising have yet to be realized but if we started on january twenty fifth which marks then there have been no serious efforts toward reform the police no serious effort to cleanse or deal with the legal structure and the traditional structure that we inherited from mubarak and that continues to make abuses possible and to prevent any effort being abused as accountable for crimes of the past january twenty third team has already seen mass protests across the country as egyptians continue to put pressure on the new president to make their demands a reality the second anniversary of the revolution is for many not so much a celebration but a continuation of the struggle for basic rights. true for r.t.

cairo. france is reportedly extending its military presence in north africa in addition to the military campaign in mali it's now also to be sending special forces to neighboring need to protect your a.t.m. sites run by a state owned company so the french say the science in nature i could become the target for african islamist militants who threatened revenge and power is within mali intervention against insurgents. and as you can see on this map where is the map now ok heritage mali and they're both neighboring countries and former french colonies as well have resources that the french energy sector is heavily dependent upon and those are things that maria the notion explains that's already raising questions about french intentions in the region. the french have died headlong into the military operation in mali but the discussion is still on go in as to exactly why the western nation has put boots on african soil again costing money and

people's lives official rhetoric remains in line with the mantra of the war on terrorism but some statements suggest another layer of france's defense minister has declared total reconquest of mali is the main goal with the president echoing french troops twenty five hundred so far who remain in the region for as long as necessary they're attempting to militarize huge sections of africa so that they want to monopolize access to this to the resources this is where we think this to become specifically i mean relations do it to states i know we seeing it with problems in other parts of the european union through european union troops actually being used i mean some of the money conflict as well which has been relatively rare in the past gold and especially the iranian deposits make the country very attractive nearly eighty percent of all france's energy generated by almost sixty nuclear power plants is dependent on african rain and. french

companies must go on the offensive and fight the growing influence of rival china for stake in africa's increasingly competitive markets all this is neocolonialism but with simpler role france is far from the only nation to have and defended its interests in africa the french have intervened around fifty times in africa in the last fifty years since official declination protecting regimes from rebels like in djibouti and the central african republic all fighting regimes like in libya france is always driven by economic or geopolitical interests this time is no different i call eyes asian wasn't actually over apart from economic there is also strategic importance this part of africa opens routes to the red sea and the middle east britain and france have for centuries fought over it before it's like a remake but with many others involved but that doesn't mean the round mutual interests here. if you ask people in mali you'd be surprised they were waiting for

somebody to save them because their army is not equipped to train to oppose these militants but it was necessary to intervene in mali people see this operation as a liberation they hardly wanted to live under islamicists misery had that is a philosopher in the form of the nation and bassa to unesco his view on the positive impact for the people of mali is that it is actually a colonial throwback. it's ok if you want to come use resources but then it's logical that locals profit as well and that those riches go to improve their life but that's not the case this way is wild a kind of slavery mali him on the richest national resources in africa yet remains one of the poorest nations in the world for many years there's been in paris was the headquarters of the country's ministry of colonies their body which administered french territories overseas today that ministry no longer exists and forward. french colonies are independent but someone got along no idea it's all

just part of history and that history may be repeating. now team from paris. it will ching else here and still to come later this hour provocation all self protection as we it was it's most likely that sound targeted america will talk to an expert who has pyongyang is not declaring war but actually ensuring that balance of peace. are going to dig themselves out of debt as a payday loans cash crop of families with promises of waiting for them to money. have flown near has unilaterally declared its right to independence referendum as the region's government seeks a break away from spain the vote may take place next year however madrid rejected the idea saying an independence hall is against this punished constitution and sponsored from the european partnership for independence says catalonia leaving

could benefit but cites. these declarations what he has done is just to formalize something that democrats already know and that these tax cuts alone yeah it's a sobering nation we just declared that was only because we all know that's the case but formally don't we are and the legal sort and subject it's no way to progress with one of the lads to be something that you are not and it was kind of three young cats and the only other nations by day old we are not the spanish so it's a would be you truck rest and it would be denied tech when we are separate good terms . and the optimism is not shared by everyone in spain connell's tells us a sociologist at the university says catalonia is government is pursuing dangerous policies which man to mind the region's chances to survive on its. carnivals come

really cheap and for the moment it's really just a bunch of posturing it's mostly signing declarations and saying you know. is sovereign country or you know under the party that's currently in the government with the help of the republican left. decides that you know they're going to privatized the water and privatized natural resources in catalonia when they're going to get rid of all of their public health care and privatized that what they're basically doing is auctioning off the territory auctioning off all of the public and state institutions that they supposedly want all of the institutions that you build with sovereignty they're auction them off to private investors so you know the question is can they be can they be independent on their own materially they could if they weren't you know auctioning things off and and granting more sovereignty then the people of catalonia. have signed to take a look so what's considered by the to learn is biggest ever not true independence

went over a million hit the streets of america. in the u.s. a cia veteran and a former chief of counterterrorist operations in pakistan is facing thirty months in prison after being found guilty of leaking classified information to a reporter john kerry cow became known to the public in two thousand and seven when he was the for his government official to admit waterboarding was torture and added this week a cow explained why he's driven time. i've never gained anything for what i've said publicly that i've lost everything and i believe i was prosecuted not for what i did but for who i am a cia officer who said torture was wrong and ineffective and went against the grain i'm not naive i know that national security and intelligence and

counterterrorism a very is a very tough arena i knew that there was a risk to what i was doing. but i also know that debasing another person and serializing human rights abuses under a legal paper is not the american way and it's not something that as americans we should be engaged in we are not a lowest common denominator country measuring what is right by what others do and the american way stands for something and it is not torture i never tortured anybody but i'm heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers are papered over it and the people who deceived it and the man who destroyed the proof of the tapes will never face justice. u.s. senator john kerry is widely expected to win easy confirmation from the senate has the next secretary of state after a hearing before lawmakers on thursday president obama's nominee will replace hillary clinton as the country's top diplomat some believe will do little to change

the old face of u.s. foreign policy. well the clinton legacy is pretty much i think the legacy of american wars and a counterterrorism policy that has usurped the usual prerogatives of the state department john kerry will not be able to fundamentally change the course of u.s. foreign policy which is again set in motion a set in stone if you will because of the power that the cia and the military really wield over the direction of u.s. relations with so much of the of the world particularly the middle east and now increasingly in africa as well as well as of course south asia so every virtually every important issue that he's going to deal with. you know in those parts of the world will be. issues which have been essentially preempted already the policy set

by the military and by the cia and i think that there is very little chance that john kerry will challenge any of the fundamental directions of u.s. policy such as for example the drone war in pakistan. based controversial use of drones to target terror is that has become the focus of a major u.n. investigation human rights activists are highly critical of that saying itself in the results and why does civilian deaths and that official acknowledged and aside from the lack of transparency the holy galatea of the tactics is now being questioned as if the situation in. what we have going on is a group of top notch international law specialist spearheaded by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years there are going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen again a stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied

territories the group plans to look into from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by a follow up or are people going to funerals this is been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this report as finally revealed in the months to come what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks and killing civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been

a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children were killed and we saw a group of countries russia china and pakistan addressed the u.n. human rights council and saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in recent years eight hundred ninety one civilians since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of this particular investigation is exactly that. julian assange is hitting movie screens worldwide hollywood is making a movie about the weekend and as you can find out why the famous whistleblower is labeling the project as lies and propaganda. if i'm told by and file sharing service mega upload exclusively tells us how he's getting

around the law with his new start up and here are some of the highlights and the full interview you can feel here at this six thirty pm a charity or on our website. it's innocent and i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that the government is quite exposed here because we went in was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying and i mean the whole war picture when you look at it trolls that this was an urge mission done in a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that.

the eurozone suppliants will be subject to close proceedings in the plash surroundings of davos it comes amid wide attention in europe as the u.k. prime minister tries to smooth ties with his e.u. partners after promising him britain to hold a referendum on whether to leave the union on his case he appealed and reports. in davos switzerland those currency all the most anticipated speech of the day they had to come from british prime minister david cameron after he announced a referendum on membership of the e.u. and his desire to win a new settlement for your opening credits of monti concessions from brussels as well but when he came face to face with the leaders interestingly he seemed to think black's tracks like he was soft and his approach and he said he was no way turning his back on year although he was trying as did the audience away from the topic because his speech was actually focused on tax transparency to cut down on

the void and some of what he wanted to talk about with the rest of the financial ministers here in davos they just wanted to talk about the referendum we also had angle of merkel the german chancellor she took to the mike and she was talking about structural reforms and she spoke about her concern as well to do with the spanish unemployment rate now sitting at sixty percent she was concerned with that we also had to look at the brics countries as well as women's role in the financial community and to stay with us here from north day from davos through us today our special coverage in our business bulletin at eighteen thirty three and. north korea has threatened the neighbor with physical countermeasures it would join as the latest round of your sanctions the stark warning came just a day after north korea announced it would conduct a surge nuclear test saying it's atomic and missile programs are targeting the u.s.

and brian becker from the and who also coalition service is haitian on the korean peninsula is extremely volatile but pyongyang is recent actions could actually be keeping the balance of power. korea is the most heavily militarized part of the planet the u.s. won't sign the landmine treaty one of the few countries not to be a signatory to it because they say they may need it in korea there's constant incidence in north korea one of those could blow up and become a major conflagration it's a serious problem every time any country says that they are going to defend themselves from the united states the united states or you're an aggressor and thus we have the new excuse the new pretext to up the ante but i think when you look at the whole picture you could see that north korea's sort of tenacious militancy even if it appears to be bombastic in the west in the way it's presented in the western media it's had the effect of preventing what would have been otherwise i think a war between the united states and its allies south korea in north korea that was

a danger that existed in one thousand nine hundred four a very real danger it started again when bush came into office scratching scotching the the normalization process that was under way during clinton so i don't think the north korea is sort of. impression that it's prepared to fight is actually accelerating the conflict if anything i think it could lead to new negotiations. and last night check some other stories from around the world this hour according to the chicago sun times citizens of thirty five years in jail for his role in the two thousand and eight attacks in mumbai india that killed one hundred sixty four people including six americans. who trencher his name to david headley in two thousand and six has admitted conducting advanced surveillance for their sold prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for his agreement to a corporation with you are sources. at least seventeen people were killed and thirty four injured when two buses collided in believe year police say the crash happened when one of the vehicles crossed into the wrong lane this is the third

such incident in the country this week the levy has the highest mortality rate for the road and for the south america. shop why the murders in pakistan's largest city of karachi has led to protests the last outcry was sparked by the recent killing of a twenty year old in upscale neighborhood xargs that kind of was allegedly gunned down by men from two of the city's wealthiest families who are accused of trying to undermine case pakistan's police and judges are believed to be highly corrupt and often swayed by pressure from the elite. cash advance any time he needed payday loans have become a burden for the u.k. government as a tries to keep people away from banks offering an easy but expensive bug or he's south us why it's so hard to break the bond money habit. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of

a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days. period people can actually just turn off. line access online ask for two with longer especially up to four hundred pounds it can be in the bank within fifteen minutes to find out the culture has landed britain's with the whopping one point four trillion pounds in loans and credit card the northeast in particular has seen a big increase rethink in the number of the payday loans that are popping up on the high street here in this part you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stores but see. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high

interest rates. there's no such thing as easy money but the people with financial options these authors can appear to be like. those of the working providing advice what takes just moments to appraise can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat then of course the rest will continue on and then we're going. to try and pay off the period first. saw the most try one go first go on to quick witted want to. hear and it's just a never in a title and people are getting stuck in this trial. this practice of rolling over a loan has become increasingly common and with some companies not carrying out proper credit checks people he simply take have the means to pay back the money and end up with their debt quickly spiraling we went to be one of the representatives

of leading payday loan provided the why the industry seems to be lending say irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't afford to pay you back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make the best assessment of somebodies affordability at the front end of the process we don't want to mentor somebody who can't pay back and we don't want to get people into financial difficulty but these are areas of the united kingdom and some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay back that money what you're finding is these members are setting up some secondary high streets where the rates are lower they're also setting up where there's a demand the situation has changed from when we used to be able to be flooded with all sorts of offers a credit to the fact that we unless we've got. an exemplary credit history we can't

going to access to credit the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with this site on tighter regulation but in the meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out the payday loan nor. avoid the why. so r.t. reporting from. the latest innovations from the high tech world in technology update that's not rational. hold it hold it hold it. hold. her mum lives on.

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